So for those of you who haven’t been counting down the days, The Contender Asia finally debuted last night. For those of you fortunate enough to live in area with access to AXN Asian, you were no doubt treated to some Muay Thai action.
If you’re a poor sap like me you spent most of the day, scouring the web and scheming on ways to get a hold of the episode.
I apologize for lagging on the post today, I wanted to get something out sooner, but I spent most of the day in disbelief that nobody has posted the episode. I’m heading out to Bangkok next Tuesday, I hope to remedy our situation personally.
If any of you have access to AXN Asian and you have recording capabilities… send me an email, maybe we can work something out, come to some sort of arrangement.
Anyway, The official Contender Asia site has been updated and they’ve got some clips and summaries of the first episode. I’m still holding out, I would rather watch the episode then read about it. I hope to post something as soon as possible.
35 responses so far ↓
1 alphadog // Jan 16, 2008 at 11:06 pm
dont have too high hopes. it isnt that fantastic. looks very low budget
2 Peter Moon // Jan 17, 2008 at 1:24 am
low budget or not…this is historical event for muay thai fans. I hope we can find ourselves some STAGE6 quality…please Lord let it be available!
3 a5yfk // Jan 17, 2008 at 1:27 am
I’ve been looking everywhere too and it does not seem to be available anywhere, just the odd clip or so on youtube but i want to watch the whole thing.
We are all relying on you nop.
Please make this happen!!!
4 giovanni // Jan 17, 2008 at 2:51 am
this is soo lame that its not being played in the states
5 matt // Jan 17, 2008 at 5:47 am
…I take it whoever asked Narupon what his name was , did it to be polite and get him talking, or did someone in there not actually know who he is!??
6 matt // Jan 17, 2008 at 5:49 am
.oh and good effort on the updates nopstar I’m stuck in a hotel without axn…threaders…)
7 Grake // Jan 17, 2008 at 7:11 am
The show is kinda disappointing, with the filming angle and the subtitle. But still it worth the effort… Still lots of things could be improve.
But I heard its better then “The Contender : Boxing” and BTW for the results of the first match was Narupol won and Trevor was send home. While the results for the 2nd Match was… erm not going to be a spoilter for you guys.
8 ahmoy // Jan 17, 2008 at 8:29 am
hey! what has happened to john wayne parr? he has a very big tummy but as always he is very charismatic.
9 spydaman // Jan 17, 2008 at 9:53 am
Grake, thanx for spoilin’ da first fight.
10 george // Jan 17, 2008 at 11:49 am
i am watching it right now,looks great to me…
11 muaypride // Jan 17, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Where can I watch it from United States? Is it available online?
12 Peter // Jan 17, 2008 at 12:51 pm
good job Grake for spoilin the first episode..what da freak son? please dont dont do that again…ever.
13 hellraiser // Jan 17, 2008 at 5:51 pm
that was really cute Grake for spoiling the episode. TRY not doing that. not fair to the ones who have not seen it…
14 alekos87 // Jan 17, 2008 at 6:25 pm
good one grake u smeared turd!!!
15 Anonymous // Jan 17, 2008 at 6:49 pm
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1V4BU1OU
if you havent seen it yet
16 matt lucas // Jan 17, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Nop,
I’m in bangkok now training at ingram. Email me we should meet up.
matt lucas
17 Dii Mak // Jan 17, 2008 at 9:02 pm
I am at a hotel in Singapore and watched it. Man, was it just me, or did other people read Grake’s post and find it unbelievably clueless… ha ha…
Hey, how about I break down each round and also the apparent dislike and shit talking that may or may not have happened. I can start to spoil the next episode as well just from the teaser. Naaa… I’ll let you guys wait.
I’ll say this. The quality is not bad, but the filming could make it a bit more dramatic. Also, the fights are standard 5 round, which is great for us. I fear though, that the casual fan will lose interest. And that is not good overall. I think the drama in the house is going to heat up on Raffique (sp?) alone. Its no surprise that he comes off like a cocky mother fucker. So we’ll see..
18 Suli // Jan 17, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Nop,
I’m in bangkok now training at ingram. Email me we should meet up.
matt lucas
Hey matt did we train at INGRAM at the same time??
19 Hawaiifightfan // Jan 17, 2008 at 11:05 pm
what the hell grake?? are you dense?
20 kai // Jan 18, 2008 at 1:15 am
episode1 is up on bittorrent.
downloading it now !!!!
21 alphadog // Jan 18, 2008 at 2:54 am
the action’s aint that good. dont expect k1 standards even. you can barely see shit from the way they film it. like dark and shit. and its film from like a top down angle which is crap. even filming a fight with ur hp would be much better
22 a5yfk // Jan 18, 2008 at 5:04 am
Thanks Anonymous you da man!!!
I had been looking everywhere kai and your right it is up on torrents now was not there yesterday.
Grake your an idiot for telling everyone the result, not cool buddy!!
23 spydaman // Jan 18, 2008 at 8:43 am
I’d like to say thank u Anonymous, Kai and everyone else who has contributed to us being able to view the fight.
Oh and once again, I’d like to give a special shout out to Grake for ruining it for us.
and alekos87 “u smeared turd!!!”….That’s one of the funniest name calling I have ever heard in my life….thanx for that….lol…..NOP…Thanx for this site.
24 Tong Po // Jan 18, 2008 at 9:46 am
I better be able to see this somehow!! Good to here from our local funkmaster, Dii Mak.
25 nopstar // Jan 18, 2008 at 11:34 am
Seriously I don’t think Ive ever spent so much time trying to upload something. Divx is really starting to piss me off.
26 jerry // Jan 18, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Thank you Anonymous…your clip is so cool
27 Anonymous // Jan 18, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Tong Po , ill have it at the gym =P
28 jerry // Jan 18, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Masato watchs out Naruepol…
29 giovanni // Jan 18, 2008 at 1:58 pm
wow it took me almost 3 hours to download the first episode. it was well worth it!
30 Gusnark // Jan 18, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Hi guys, what do you think of this Episode 2 preview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l4CuOv8TJU
I don’t know, I find it somehow fake. Is Yod really saying that, does he even speak English?
Could it be just some cheap “set up” for the viewers, well this is how I see it.
Even if it’s true, I remember Yod kicking Rafik’s ass, so if I would be him, I would be smart enough to keep my mouth shut, lol.
31 lankapo // Jan 18, 2008 at 7:59 pm
can’t wait to see the second round,
yup the budget is low, you can see there are not mny people watching it.
Why it is staged in Singapore anyway, Thailand should be the perfect place.
I read there are K1 fighter are better than them like masato and buakaw
32 gary // Jan 19, 2008 at 8:54 pm
what up rafrdick no frogs legs for dinner well you will get all the legs you can handle when you get in the ring with any of them boy jw , yod give him his porrage lumpy peace
33 Gusnark // Jan 21, 2008 at 11:56 pm
“I take it whoever asked Narupon what his name was”
Matt, I think Zidov was kinda making fun of him. That was not very respectful, since he could clearly see, he can’t speak english. I’m sure everyone there know for each other. I hope Naruepol teaches him a lesson.
34 loz // Jan 22, 2008 at 12:32 am
Yodsanklai can speak english. The production quality is very good. This is a REALITY TV show. So it’s just not about the fighting. Even people who don’t know anything about Muaythai will enjoy it I think. Zidov is funny, it’s called a sense of humor. Anyway, they are on the same team. Can’t wait for the next episode.
35 matt // Jan 22, 2008 at 12:50 am
Gusnark, I’ve just met Zidov a couple of days ago, he is a good guy, I think he was just making an effort to get people talking…..I mean there was two options for people in the show, either try to speak to Narupon or dont bother, (because is English isn’t great)….so at least he made an effort…
(I didn’t pick up from the clip that it was zidov that said that so i didn’t ask him about it!!)
…and i’ve still not seen the bloody program yet… all this downloading and file sharing business is driving me up the wall!!!
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